Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Pete Holmes wants you to know he's not
Speaker 1: reading your email. He caught up with Wired and said,
Speaker 1: you can make a living. You could have a life
Speaker 1: and leave fifty five thousand emails on Red with a
Speaker 1: big f off. Because this was Wired, they asked Pete
Speaker 1: Holmes about technology, which is kind of interesting. I like
Speaker 1: when you ask comedians about different things. What phone do
Speaker 1: you have, Pete Holmes? He said, it's the iPhone Air
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty five. I love this phone so much.
Speaker 1: The first thing I love about it is it didn't
Speaker 1: do well. No one bought it, and then when I
Speaker 1: saw it, I couldn't wait to get it. People often
Speaker 1: think it's an Android. People don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: I love all of this. I love having a phone
Speaker 1: nobody else has. I mean, everybody has the same ugly
Speaker 1: spider eyeball phone. Everybody's just getting the max the twenty
Speaker 1: eight hundred hour battery life. Get all that stuff out
Speaker 1: of here. The iPhone Air is the first iPhone I've
Speaker 1: seen it in a long time that looks like Steve Jobs
Speaker 1: out of say, everything else is just Apple playing catchup
Speaker 1: with Android. Apple mimick. It's something this saill Google do
Speaker 1: or whoever giving us a bunch of stuff we don't need.
Speaker 1: And the flex is that it has a short battery life.
Speaker 1: You see my phone to go. Bete must not be
Speaker 1: on his phone very much. There was a time when
Speaker 1: Apple was trying to make the eleven inch laptop. They
Speaker 1: were trying to make the future. They were trying to
Speaker 1: have things look clean, and now it's just like, here's everything.
Speaker 1: You look like you work at Silicon Valley. You look
Speaker 1: like you're a programmer. I want to look like I'm
Speaker 1: in Blade Runner. They asked Pete Holmes his average screen time.
Speaker 1: The answer one hour fifteen minutes. Pete said, it's dream
Speaker 1: of dreams to finally, if someone asked me in a
Speaker 1: public way, what's your screen time? I've been living for
Speaker 1: this day. So today it's two o'clock and I'm at
Speaker 1: twenty seven minutes. And every day I am for sub
Speaker 1: one hour. And I'm so aware of what a flex
Speaker 1: this is. I just got my screen report. An hour
Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes was my average for the week. And
Speaker 1: here's the punchline. That's still too much. I still feel
Speaker 1: stressed out by my phone. I can't even imagine what
Speaker 1: mine is. My phone's upstairs. I'll tell you some other episode.
Speaker 1: I'm still looking at it more than I would like to,
Speaker 1: and it still gets its closet me. At some points
Speaker 1: it goes higher if I watch a movie or something.
Speaker 1: If I've been flying, I keep the widget for screen
Speaker 1: time on my home screen, which is good hack. Trying
Speaker 1: to lose weight, you have to weigh yourself, and if
Speaker 1: you're trying to get your screen time down, put the
Speaker 1: widget on your phone. Pete says, there's no social media
Speaker 1: on my phone. It's not natural to be in line
Speaker 1: at the airport security and finding out everything from every
Speaker 1: corner of the globe and having your own personal life
Speaker 1: just constantly. I found that if you step away, people
Speaker 1: get the message pretty quickly. You have to tell people.
Speaker 1: A lot of my texts start with sorry. I'm not
Speaker 1: a big text person, and my phone is in black
Speaker 1: and white. It's a nice little hack. Your phone is
Speaker 1: like a slot machine, so the more you can limit
Speaker 1: its color and sound, the less it can lull you
Speaker 1: in a lot more there. We'll save that for summer weekends.
Speaker 1: As we go, there's a lot more there. I am
Speaker 1: scrolling down as I babble to you here. Jeff A.
Speaker 1: Kuriy has a pretty good special on Netflix. The La
Speaker 1: Times profiled him. They said, let's talk about the weird
Speaker 1: level of fame you've attained right now. You're the guy
Speaker 1: everyone sees on their Instagram reels at the same time,
Speaker 1: like who's that guy? Jeff said, one hundred percent my
Speaker 1: uber driver on a forty five minute ride here. We
Speaker 1: talked the entire time. As soon as I get in,
Speaker 1: he goes, you do comedy? I go, yeah, man, we
Speaker 1: start talking. He's asked me questions. We're talking about comedy.
Speaker 1: We pull up and he goes, what's your name? By
Speaker 1: the way, he was quoting videos of mine the whole time.
Speaker 1: Then I wrote it down for him. I was like,
Speaker 1: special comes out July seventh, to give it a watch,
Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, man, I only have YouTube.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, you don't have to say that.
Speaker 1: You don't have to lie in the airport. I get
Speaker 1: a lot of people squinting, and then I'll see them
Speaker 1: look at their phone and try to figure out how
Speaker 1: do I know this person? The La Times ask Jeff
Speaker 1: for curi you I have your crowd work clips on
Speaker 1: social media changed your career, he said immensely. I think
Speaker 1: it was the only way for me to put out
Speaker 1: as much content as I could and still perform live.
Speaker 1: I get to show my improvisation and yet still work
Speaker 1: on the written part personally, and it gets to repeat
Speaker 1: that joke for your touring, as opposed to a crowd
Speaker 1: work moment it happens, it's done. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: bad crowd work out there, just like there's bad editing
Speaker 1: else fledgling or whatever rookie stuff. I think it's died down,
Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, I think the main reason for
Speaker 1: the hate is because a lot of people start to
Speaker 1: try it. They weren't doing it, and so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that try it because they saw the success.
Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough that I was already doing it,
Speaker 1: and so I just applied it to social media. No
Speaker 1: point in my career did I say I'm going to
Speaker 1: start talking to the audience. I've always done that. It
Speaker 1: makes me cringe when I see comedians complaining about crowd work.
Speaker 1: Why you're worried about what you're not doing. Do your
Speaker 1: thing and then succeed. Don't try and latch on whatever
Speaker 1: the success is and then complain didn't work for you.
Speaker 1: Change gears aget a little more serious here after Netflix
Speaker 1: called what was the first thing you did to prepare
Speaker 1: for the special? Jeff said, So, that's kind of hard
Speaker 1: because last year was a big year healthwise for my wife.
Speaker 1: She was diagnosed with cancer and everything, so it's a
Speaker 1: lot of adjusting on the fly. We found out about
Speaker 1: the special within today or so, finding out that she
Speaker 1: was misdiagnosed and her cancer was actually in a better
Speaker 1: place than we thought it was. So it was a
Speaker 1: great week for us. So it was very surreal. But
Speaker 1: then to switch to prepping for special because I'm not
Speaker 1: going to record a special talking about my life prior
Speaker 1: to that, it felt weird being able to talk about dating,
Speaker 1: talking about sex, life, things like that when I just
Speaker 1: got married. So a lot of special, I would say,
Speaker 1: at least half was written within a year of the
Speaker 1: taping on the road that year, going through what I
Speaker 1: was going through with my wife. There's jokes she's made
Speaker 1: throughout the year that I would do on stage even
Speaker 1: after clearing it and saying, my wife said this and
Speaker 1: she has cancer, and here's the joke. And I still
Speaker 1: get people like, oh, come on, don't make that joke, dude.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't, she did. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: what happened. We want to let people know that we
Speaker 1: make dark jokes about her life, about our cancer, about
Speaker 1: our situation, and not every joke, just like every couple,
Speaker 1: not every joke is meant to be for everybody. Seth
Speaker 1: Myers was on the Hey Jonas podcast curious about his
Speaker 1: correspondent with former SNL cants mates and asked if there
Speaker 1: are any group chats and who's in them and do
Speaker 1: any of them have a funny name. Seth Myers said,
Speaker 1: the group chat with the funniest name, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: Seth Myers, who has the twelve thirty show on NBC.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that good. The President of the
Speaker 1: United States and I are a line that we need
Speaker 1: to make twelve thirty great again. But Seth Myers is
Speaker 1: doing his thing every night at twelve thirty, getting slightly
Speaker 1: more viewers than I have listeners. And Seth Meyers said
Speaker 1: the funniest group chat name belongs to one with Amy
Speaker 1: Poehler and producer Michael Schumaker and the very funny group
Speaker 1: chat name is Seth Meyers said, we're the Tripod, the
Speaker 1: three of us. That's sort of a lovingly supportive one.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's funny, the Tripod. Hello, oh show,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Man? That's the funny one. Meyer said.
Speaker 1: The other group chats don't have funny names. Hey, Seth
Speaker 1: Nioth is that one. But they have some funny people,
Speaker 1: you know, Andy Samberg, Fred Armison and Bill Hayter, those
Speaker 1: guys on one. I will say the funniest texture independent
Speaker 1: of a group is Fred Ormison. Just for Laugh Sydney
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six has been announced. Now I saw some
Speaker 1: reports that said this is the first JFL Sydney, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm pretty sure that existed. And this article
Speaker 1: I'm Kribbigoff says it's the fourteenth edition. Now I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure it existed because when I was working with the
Speaker 1: Just for Last Folks AD Serious a decade ago, I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out a way to scan my
Speaker 1: way to doing business travel to Sydney. Never pulled it off,
Speaker 1: So that's why I know like this existed before. So
Speaker 1: for its fourteenth year, they've already announced Gabriela Iglesias Task
Speaker 1: Master star Greg Davies, comedy legend Bill Bailey, and mock
Speaker 1: the Weak icon Dara O'Brien Just for Laugh, Sydney, November ninth,
Speaker 1: Through the twenty second The Guardian wrote about The Underground
Speaker 1: Monk Show, Edinburgh's fringe cult comedy of the highest order.
Speaker 1: They tell us deep within the cavernous Banshee Labyrinth in
Speaker 1: Edinburgh's Cowgate, robed monks stand ominously on stage after midnight.
Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty four, halfway through the fringe, and nobody
Speaker 1: knows what's happening. But in this dungeon like sweat box,
Speaker 1: we're about to experience a work in progress that's equal
Speaker 1: parts to joyous and utterly unhinged. Two years later, Underground
Speaker 1: Monks Show is back. So what's this about? Co creator
Speaker 1: John Norris said, it's so funny because that's what we
Speaker 1: constantly ask ourselves. If you were an attempt to explain it,
Speaker 1: you might say the show follows whimsical monks who, over
Speaker 1: the course of an hour, experience a spiritual awakening, spurred
Speaker 1: on by a magical body of water that turns their
Speaker 1: visions into reality. There are flashbacks, dream sequences, and a
Speaker 1: portal into another world. One night, the monks latched onto
Speaker 1: objects from members of the audience. A poor man in
Speaker 1: the front row lost his cap for the entire show
Speaker 1: when accompanied by Gregorian Chance and Coral Masses. The monks
Speaker 1: deemed it sacred to their cause. See I love this stuff.
Speaker 1: I know some of you were like, what just tell
Speaker 1: us about Bill Bird? Dude, I love this weird stuff.
Speaker 1: Co director Corey Podle said it had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with monks or nuns, but we were just stressed that way.
Speaker 1: Then from there John just kept being like, what if
Speaker 1: we were all just like monks? He said, At enough time,
Speaker 1: I guess he manifested it. Norris Hope's audience has experienced
Speaker 1: a nice little escape for an hour. The Underground Monk
Speaker 1: Show is at Assembly George Square Gardens in Edinburgh August
Speaker 1: fifth through the thirtieth, then in London at the Soho
Speaker 1: Theater January eleventh through the twenty third. How we doing
Speaker 1: on time? Little short good? Because I had kicked a
Speaker 1: story the other day about Michael Chay. The Minneapolis Star
Speaker 1: Tribune went to see Michael Chay and said, Chay proves
Speaker 1: he's one of comedy's sharpest bad boys. Jay jumped from
Speaker 1: one politically incorrect subject to the next, using language that
Speaker 1: would never be allowed on NBC. At one point, he
Speaker 1: mused about the chances that Abraham Lincoln was gay. The joke,
Speaker 1: told much better by Michael Chay, was he was shot
Speaker 1: in the theater. That's a pretty gay way to die.
Speaker 1: Weird told Chase. Material is just as edgy as anything
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle or Matt Rife has ever uttered. Is Matt
Speaker 1: Rife edgy? I don't think Matt Wife's edgy? Is he?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Is it sire? A backwards baseball cap,
Speaker 1: sweatshirt and sweatpants. Wait, that's almost what I'm wearing. No
Speaker 1: cap today? Showered, Well, not on Sunday. I didn't record
Speaker 1: this on Sunday morning. John didn't go to the doctor
Speaker 1: on Sunday. No. I went to the doctor on Thursday
Speaker 1: when I recorded this, So I showered. So I'm not
Speaker 1: wearing a baseball cap. But it would not be absurd
Speaker 1: if I recording the show wearing a baseball cap, a
Speaker 1: sweatshirt and sweatpants. Maybe in July it would be, but
Speaker 1: in November probably what I'm wearing. I digress. Michael Jay
Speaker 1: wore a backwards baseball cap, sweatshirt, and sweatpants. He even
Speaker 1: indulged spectators who felt it necessary to comment. Jay said,
Speaker 1: this is why I don't do crowd work now. In
Speaker 1: the past, during these summer shows, Shay would like hint
Speaker 1: that he might not return to SNL. He did not
Speaker 1: comment on SNL at all this time, so maybe he'll
Speaker 1: be back. That is your comedy news on a summer Sunday.
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow.